Arlene Avakian: Memoirs of an Armenian-American Woman from an Intersectional Feminist Perspective

On April 20, 2015, Arlene Voski Avakian of the University of Massachusetts delivered a speech titled “Not an Armenian on Mondays and Not a Woman on Tuesdays: Memoirs of an Armenian-American Woman from an Intersectional Feminist Perspective”. In her speech, she gave answers to the question: “Why would a woman decide to write a memoir when she is neither old nor famous?” Steeped in both the women's liberation movement and Women's Studies, Arlene Avakian wrote her thesis, which could later be called her own ethnography, in the early 1980s, and which was first published in 1992 as a book titled "Lion Woman's Legacy".